BrownSheep- It's been a while

[BrownSheep]

I figured I'ld give one of these little journals a whirl. I currently am raising chickens, turkeys, yaks, and sheep. I am a FFA and 4-H member. I do plan on showing and selling this year at our county fair. I'll be working this summer as as Fuels Tech for the BLM.

 

[BarredRockMomma]

Welcome to BYH jorunaling.

 

[BrownSheep]

We had a new baby today . A little ewe lamb out of our Rambouillet ram. She's a cutie , but I must remember ewe does not mean I can keep her. She was born out on the pasture. Mainly because we had no exact breeding dates. We got her and her momma, Beazus, home to where there's more protection. Then my oh so darling Dorset ram decided to show us how tough he was and head butted the fence. Being as the fence is probably 60-70 years old it pushed the fence post over at an odd angle. When I was fixing the fence he head butted the post when I wasnt pay attention and pinned my hand between the old wood post and the new metal one I was putting in to support it. Somedays I would really consider trying mutton.

 

[BarredRockMomma]

Don't forget the pictures!!

for your hand

 

[BrownSheep]

I'll try to get pictures...I'll have to find my connection cord for my camera.

We had another baby when we came home yesterday. Another little ewe. I'm not to certain who the daddy is though. Her mother, Billy, would not stay in the pasture this fall so she did alot of bouncing from the house to the pasture. I'm leaning towards to devil dorset, Henry. I love him even though he really is the devil.

Our new puppy Blue...or Boo...Or Mae... ( we haven't decided on a name yet) is doing well. She's interested in the sheep but TERRIFIED when they walk towards her. She's just a baby and will hopefully get over it. She's still small and is on the bottom of ALL the totem poles, chickens and cats included. I need to get her an appointment for a parvo shot since we have it in our area. My mother still doesn't know we have her. I don't know how she doesn't know considering she howls when she is in her pen.

 

[BarredRockMomma]

Our new puppy Blue...or Boo...Or Mae... ( we haven't decided on a name yet) is doing well. She's interested in the sheep but TERRIFIED when they walk towards her. She's just a baby and will hopefully get over it. She's still small and is on the bottom of ALL the totem poles, chickens and cats included. I need to get her an appointment for a parvo shot since we have it in our area. My mother still doesn't know we have her. I don't know how she doesn't know considering she howls when she is in her pen.

I don't think my dad knows about the two ND baby boys that came home almost a month ago. If he does he has't said anything.

 

[BrownSheep]

Built a temporary pen for the sheep today, so they can eat down some of the grass. I'm dirty sunburnt and tired. Were going to do vaccinations and sorting tomorrow. You wouldnt think it would take long with only 20 sheep, but it will take up most of the day

 

[BrownSheep]

Today has been a very looooong slightly horrible day. Starts with me being yelled at to herd the sheep, but apparently I'm wearing the wrong shoes . I walk down and move Henry the devil and am getting ready to go back to get the others when I get yelled atformoving the ram. . I go back down to get the rest of the sheep. I'm down there 15 or 20 minutes when my sister comes and helps which I'm grateful for. Then I get snapped at by her for not telling her I was moving them? All right whatever. We then have to move the 2 rams back. At this point Im getting pretty cranky. She starts back while I try to corral the othe ram. She gets back and yells at me for not having the ram corralled. This is after I've been kicked and had my wrist twisted. . We get the ram back and come home to one of my ewes with her head stuck in the new fence. these are BRAND new pannels so I can't just cut her out. I sprayed her down with water and hoped she would get out while we ate. She didn't. So my father comes and pulls her back legs while I pull the fence. We get her out. I get yelled at for the dumb sheep.

Two hours she's back in the stupid fence. This time she's stuck odd and when we pull her she starts choke. I start balling and my dad allows me to run get the bolt cutters and cut the fence. I move her and her twins back to the old pen. One the lambs get loose and Im in trouble for that as well.
As were going back to the house he makes some comment about how he's mad there are so many sheep in the old pen and not in the new one...sigh it been one of the days...I going to go

On the bright side all of the ewes are bagging up. And ones ladies buisness is so red and puffy it's hard to NOT look at it.

Back to the dark side".......the power went off right before I posted this and now I'm being yelled at because the incubator needs power. And because I declined to o on a walk with them.....huh I wonder why.....ONE OF THOSE DAYS

 

[BrownSheep]

Not much to report. I'm "relearning" how to knit. Its fun all though I'm pretty horrible at it. The deer are starting to come out to munch on the wheat feild in the evenings and much in our pasture in the morning. Still waiting on the eight fat mommas to lamb. Six of them will be first timers so I'm trying to keep a close eye on them. So far the lambing count this year is 4 girls 1 ram. I hope we can keep it up. Last year we had 7 girls and 1 boy so I wouldnt mind a repeat of that ratio. The on ram lamb we did have this year has been spared a trip to the butcher and will remain a ram.

 

[BrownSheep]

My feet oh my feet! I'm braking in my boots for my job, and lord all mighty. sadly I've only been wearing them for about 40 minutes . Better now when I can sit in my recliner than in a month when I'm wearing fire gear. We went to go get a lambing shed mover today. Didn't end up getting it,but will have to pick it up soon. We bought a shed from the local fair grounds. This particular shed has a bit family history. This lambing shed was part of my grandfathers ranch. When the family sold of the sheep part of the outfitt another producer bought it. They in turn donated it to the fair ground. 20 years later we bought it back.